. Indiana at Vicksburg . ortally wounded May 22d; :\ H. Finiey, 69th, mortally wounded May 22d (3) ; total for Indi-ana, 14. -PI It is reasonable to expect, in the near future, and as gifts byrelatives and friends, statues of Generals Grant, Logan. Osterhaus,Buckland (Union) and Fornev (Confederate). The Commissionis in correspondence with the friends of many other officers, Lnionand Confederate, engaged in the operations commemorated by tb.^ 20 Indfana at VicKSBurui. park, and is very hopeful of favoral)lo responses in some eases. Itis expected that the jMinnesota legislature will appro
. Indiana at Vicksburg . ortally wounded May 22d; :\ H. Finiey, 69th, mortally wounded May 22d (3) ; total for Indi-ana, 14. -PI It is reasonable to expect, in the near future, and as gifts byrelatives and friends, statues of Generals Grant, Logan. Osterhaus,Buckland (Union) and Fornev (Confederate). The Commissionis in correspondence with the friends of many other officers, Lnionand Confederate, engaged in the operations commemorated by tb.^ 20 Indfana at VicKSBurui. park, and is very hopeful of favoral)lo responses in some eases. Itis expected that the jMinnesota legislature will appropriate for astatue of General Baldwin : the Nebraska legislature for a statue ofGeneral Thayer; the New York legislature for a statue of GeneralPotter; the Pennsylvania legislature for a statue of General Parks,and that other state legislatures will make like appropriations. Theattention of wealthy Americans is being invited to the creditableopportunity offert^d by this feature of tiie park work foi- ]) Bridge on Union Avenue. In these several ways the Commission hopes to secure the statue(equestrian, standing or bust), or the portrait tablet, of each gen-eral officer, ITnion and Confederate, engaged in this campaign, siegeand defense of Vicksburg in 1863. Each will be placed at an ap-propriate site in relation to the line of the command during thesiege and defense, of the officer it portrays. When these liopes havebeen realized, even partially, the park will present a most attractive,inspiring and realistic battlefield picture. When the Union Navy Memorial is fiinshed, with tlu^ approvalof the Secretary of War. the Commission will ask the Congress to ViCKSBURG National Military Park. 21 appropriate for the construction of a memorial om the area in thepark bounded by the circle and the Warrenton road,commemorative of the service of the Confederate Navy on the ^lis-sissippi River and its tributaries during the Civil War, at a costnot to exceed $125,
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